An very good copy a rare and fragile book. Sullivan (1851-1911) notes in the preface that while he takes the starring role in many of the stories, he didn’t act alone and that credit should be shared among those by his side.
“These memoirs were written by a sergeant in Company B, Frontier Battalion, Texas Rangers. He served under Bill McDonald and others between 1888 and 1900, a period for which there are few survivng ranger recollections. In 1871 he became a Texas cowboy and began moving herds up the Chisholm Trail. Gradually, he fell into law enforcement work, as deputy sheriff and as an agent for the Pinkertons” (Jenkins).
In a wide-ranging series of anecdotes, Sullivan recounts his early life and service in Company “B” of the Texas Rangers’ Frontier Battalion. Chapters are devoted to the hanging of Bill Longley, the capture of Henry Carothers, the arrest of O. N. Hollingsworth, the Gordon train robbery, and the murder of Edd Hartman.
The list of bibliographers who rightly consider this a rare book reads like a who’s who of Texana: Adams, Herd, 2201 “Rare”; Adams, Six Guns “Exceedingly rare”; Graff, 4027 “An exceedinlgy scarce book”; Jenkins, 200 “very rare”.
